Symmetry in Printers Marks

(Above) Brockes, Barthold Heinrich (kissner Hamburg), 1734

(Above) Klostermair, Martin - Chronographia Particvlaris, 1567

(Above) Brockes, Barthold Heinrich - Jrdisches Vergnügen in Gott ; Theil 4. Hamburg - König und Richter, 1735

(Above) ‘Antwort auff der Teutschen Reuter und Kriegswohl’ 1569.

(Above) Becke-Klüchtzner, Edmund von der Stamm - ‘Tafeln des Adels des Großherzogthums Baden’, Baden-Baden, 1886

(Above) Böhme, Jacob: ‘Theosophiæ Revelatæ,’ Hamburg. 1715


(Above) Georg Philipp Harsdörffer - ‘Frauenzimmer Gesprechspiele’, Nürnberg, 1646

(Above) Alphonsus de Varga - ‘Alphonsi De Vargas Toletani Relatio Ad Reges & Principes Christianos’ 1636

(Above) Hans Lhor - ‘Kriegs Feldbüchlin’, Dillingen Bavaria, 1569

(Above) Gersdorff, Hans von: ‘Feldtbuch der Wundt Artzney’, 1551


I SPOTTED THESE EXTREMELY OLD PRINTER’S MARKS ON A VERY INTERESTING site called Bibliodyssey. I selected a variety of marks based on symmetrical designs. Check out the dates on some of these marks. Some of these could make nice tattoos. How cool would it be to have a tattoo based on a design someone made in 1569.